(02-19-2015, 09:00 AM)Tasa Rhyzul Wrote: So awhile ago I was approached by someone asking me about Keeper related business as well as some naming conventions and something occurred to me.I dunno, those Keeper names sound more African than Japanese to me...
As we all know Miqo'te are not native to Eorzea. From what I've read they came to the land during an ice age where the tundras formed paths for them to follow game. The keepers obviously ended up in the shroud, but that's mostly irrelevant.
What is relevant is what we see of Doma. Between Yugiri being the leader of the refugees of Doma as well as there being shinobi of both genders I believe it's safe to say there isn't much gender discrimination within the land. Naturally this could have just been out of necessity but it means that a splinter society shifting to either gender dominating, culturally, isn't terribly farfetched. After all, whatever works, right?
It's also obvious that Doma is based on Japanese lore. The furniture purchasable from that area all has Eastern flare and the job of choice of the land is the Ninja. This is quite important as it supports what my recent realization was, (I don't play miqo'te much so I never noticed until now.)
Lore wise, many Keeper names are very Japanese sounding. Some examples off the wiki such as Okhi Nbolo and Gota Jaab, as well as my own character's name, Miah Akhabila, have a rather distinct Japanese feel to them.
It's also stated that some Keeper family names are practically ancient, dating back to the first astral era, which means the names are relics of where they originate from.
So what do you think folks? I do believe somewhere in the lore it states that the miqo'te split up upon arriving to Eorzea to form the two clans which means Miqo'te, not just the keepers of the moon, could potentially trace back to Doma lorewise. Given that Yugiri uses miqo'te animations doesn't hurt my hunch either, but that's probably just a bandaid kinda fix because of Yugiri being the only Au Ra in the game atm.
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